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Check chance of financial success, ability to staff before adding practice hours

05/15/2017

If you’re thinking of extending your office hours, first make sure you can make it financially sustainable and that your “silent” partners, such as your landlord, are on board.

Expert: AHCA likely to pass Senate, bundled payments to go on ‘back burner’

05/15/2017

by: Roy Edroso

Practices should expect big changes in the near future, including the way patients pay for care, with or without Obamacare repeal, predicts one health care law expert who co-wrote a book on “Trumpcare.”

Senate takes steps to retrofit House health bill; Gottlieb takes over FDA

05/15/2017

by: Richard Scott

Take note of the latest health policy updates impacting physician practices.

Large practices in 9 states must start reporting 99024 on claims July 1

05/15/2017

by: Laura Evans

Practices with 10 or more practitioners in nine states will need to begin reporting their unpaid post-operative services on their Medicare claims starting July 1, CMS officials recently confirmed.

CMS adds 3 specialty designations to the slate starting Oct. 1

05/15/2017

by: Richard Scott

Prepare for the addition of three new specialties that will appear under the provider enrollment chain and ownership system (PECOS) and that may open up billing opportunities for your provider staff.

Few new codes in 2015 become widely used

05/15/2017

by: Roy Edroso

Most of the new CPT/HCPCS codes CMS added in 2015, the most recent year for which we have Medicare data, were not particularly lucrative — but some of them became very popular.

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